{"id":3358,"date":"2010-09-09T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:23:39","slug":"writer-of-vanity-fair-sarah-palin-profile-admits-mistake-and-its-a-whopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3358","title":{"rendered":"Writer of Vanity Fair profile about Sarah Palin admits mistake; and it’s a whopper"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted about the Vanity Fair piece here Vanity Fair gives Palin the once over<\/a>. I still haven't read the full essay, but Imus, who doesn't like Palin, did. On the radio Tuesday he said it was a hatchet job. I guess this is further evidence. <\/p>\n

Writer Michael Joseph Gross acknowledged to the Associated Press that he confused Palin's infant son, Trig, with another baby, who suffers from Down syndrome, at a rally in Independence, Mo. Politico first reported that Gross mistook a child who was the son of conservative activist Gina Loudon for Trig.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's
\nblog Political Fix<\/a> reported that Loudon told Gross during the event that the
\nchild in the stroller was her son, Samuel. Loudon explained, "When I grabbed
\nSamuel and walked past the stage, he said, 'Oh, are you the nanny?' And I said,
\n'No, I'm not the nanny; I'm the mother.' "<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n
\n

Gina Loudon said, "I told him that. And he
\nignored it. It's not even like he didn't fact check — he just ignored
\nfacts."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why is this important? Because on the very first page of his essay, the author uses an incident with the child to paint a dark picture of Palin as a disinterested mother, with more important things to do – she was about to give a speech. <\/p>\n

\n
In the first page of the story, Gross paints a scene of Palin's youngest
\ndaughter, Piper, pushing a stroller holding a baby that Gross writes is Trig,
\nbehind the stage at the event in Independence, Mo.<\/div>\n
Gross writes: "Backstage in the arena, a little girl in Mary Janes
\npushes her brother in a baby carriage, stopping a few yards shy of a heavy,
\n100-foot-long black curtain. The curtain splits the arena in two, shielding the
\nchildren from an audience of 4,000 people clapping their hands in time to 'The
\nBattle Hymn of the Republic.' The music accompanies a video 'Salute to Military
\nHeroes' that plays above the stage where, in a few moments, the children's
\nmother will appear.<\/div>\n
"When the girl, Piper Palin, turns around, she sees her parents
\nthronged by admirers, and the crowd rolling toward her and the baby, her brother
\nTrig, born with Down syndrome in 2008. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, bend
\ndown and give a moment to the children; a woman, perhaps a nanny, whisks the boy
\naway; and Todd hands Sarah her speech and walks her to the stage."<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n
\n

Palin's maternal nature takes a turn for the worse in the article as
\nGross talks with many anonymous sources from politicians to long-time Alaskan
\nacquaintances.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Shameless. Here was Palin's response to the article<\/a> before<\/span><\/strong> the above mistake became public knowledge.Guess she was right!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I posted about the Vanity Fair piece here Vanity Fair gives Palin the once over. I still haven't read the full essay, but Imus, who doesn't like Palin, did. On the radio Tuesday he said it was a hatchet job. I guess this is further evidence. Writer Michael Joseph Gross acknowledged to the Associated Press that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}